Commentary and Tracking of a Portfolio of Stocks using approach from "The Little Book that Beats the Market" by Joel Greenblatt aka Magic Formula Investing

Saturday, December 16, 2017

Top 200 LIst 12/16/17

MFI Top 200 List

As my readers may know, I regularly create my own top 200 list. I worked with some smart people on the Yahoo Groups MFI board and created a spreadsheet that does a very good job matching the metrics of the book and the official website (which in the early days posted calculated earnings yield and ROIC).

My list is ranked and shows dividend yield (per the unreliable Yahoo Finance). It also has more stocks as I do not necessarily throw out other countries and I have some financial-type stocks (such as Humana) that the official list excludes.

This list took a lot more work as Yahoo Finance (boo) has pulled back some of their services ("It has come to our attention that this service is being used in violation of the Yahoo Terms of Service. As such, the service is being discontinued. For all future markets and equities data research, please refer to finance.yahoo.com.").

But keep in mind that I am just a single person with a spreadsheet - so please do your own analysis before making investment decisions.